Im just wondering. i have photographic memory. but i can make those pictures into a sort of movies, like retracing my steps.. do you have photographic memory or normal memory?
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Im just wondering. i have photographic memory. but i can make those pictures into a sort of movies, like retracing my steps.. do you have photographic memory or normal memory?
I have sorta both :)
Photographic, normal and textual. I can remember lots of things written down, pictures of things and just generally remember to do something (I often forget things alot because I'm remembering so many things (wtf?))
Umm... I don't really know what does "photographic" "normal" or "textural" memory means. Anyone can give me a clue to what each exactly means?
Photographic - You can remember picture memories/things
Normal - Generally remembering anything like to buy a loaf
Textual - Remember texts or specific words or shit like that
I have a short term memory,
I can't even remember what this thread is about O.o
Anyway, normal memory for me =]
i have no memory...seriously im like a goldfish...good thing i dont smoke weed ^^
I have photographic memory. you may not belieave me, but someties ill make a picutre in my head and that will happen lol.
you do(to the one before the one before me)
Photographical for me
Goldfish do have memory. But, very short. =PQuote:
Originally Posted by xuvurex
Hmm, my memory can be quite strange. I often remember strange, and useless, pieces of information (for example I've remembered a door code from a hotel I stayed at when I was 5 - 13 years ago-. C2346Y). I'm also pretty good at learning something (i.e. a set of notes) and remembering almost exactly what it says. Sometimes I will think that I'm going to do something (i.e. take something before I go out), get distracted by something else, and then completely forget about it.
/Miles
Pardon?Whatdo you mean by you do?Quote:
Originally Posted by Mustek
my memory is the extremely bad. its funny sometimes cause during a commercial on tv i can't even remember what i was watching o.O i cant remember anything before last week at most -_- i mean my whole childhood is a blank to me. but i can remember everything i done when i was high/drunk. i'm guessing all those xanax and stuff fucked my memory up.
Its also weird, cause i still have photographic memories from when i was like 5 and under.
All of them of course.
I very much doubt you could function very well if you didn't have all of them. I guess some people excel at one type but I'd rather be able to use them all. If you only had a photographic memory how could you read if you cannot remember words? If you can only remember words how can you identify faces?
I guess personally I excel at images. I'd much rather be able to remember words/equations better as it would be far more useful :( A *normal* memory doesn't seem very useful what with the invention of calendars/mobile phones etc.
ppl who claim to have a photographic memory, u do understand that seeing or remembering pictures is different to a real photographic memory?
Im not quite sure what they all mean exlam, what im saying is that i can remember things, and i can remember them as picutres.
I betcha you don't have photographic memory as you really state. lolCode:Eidetic memory, photographic memory, or total recall is the ability to recall images, sounds, or objects in memory with extreme accuracy and in abundant volume. The word eidetic (pronounced /aɪˈdɛtɨk/) means related to extraordinarily detailed and vivid recall of visual images, and comes from the Greek word είδος (eidos), which means "form."[1] Eidetic memory can have a very different meaning for memory experts who use the picture elicitation method to detect it. Eidetic memory as observed in children is typified by the ability of an individual to study an image for approximately 30 seconds, and maintain a nearly perfect photographic memory of that image for a short time once it has been removed--indeed such eidetikers claim to "see" the image on the blank canvas as vividly and in as perfect detail as if it were still there.
If I really focus I can reach the fotographic memory status but only for a short while like if I look at some formulas or a painting I can just "paint" it again on paper but it's gone really fast.
Ya I do have it then because I can recall images , sounds, faces, etc.
Textual. I memorize passages faster than normal people.
I do have eidetic/photographic memory. My IQ is 152. Most people with 135+ have some level of total recall.
Memorization has never been a problem for me.
As a quick example, I'm able to easily go through and memorize thousands of chess positions/openings in a matter of two or three days. I have most openings memorized down to the 21st or 22nd move, including most common variations and deviations. Unless you do something really wild and uncommon, I don't have to think about my next move unless you deviate from the main lines.
Here's photographic memory for you:
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I rely on visual memory the most, and by visual I don't mean photographic.
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ontopic: my memory depends really on how much i drink throughout the week. usually pretty good, IQ of 148 (internet test so probobly wrong)
I forget what I did 5 mins ago. :S
I Have Photographic Memory, But Also Abit Of The Textual .. Depending On The Situation.
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Grey
My memory is insane. It has to be for me to be able to learn Chinese (all freakin memorizing lol) But yea, I can recall many things. Usually text and numbers more easily than vivid images, but I do have moments where I remember certain events VERY specifically.
holy shit @ the guy autistic person's memory video... and the crazzzy monkey!
I cant recall things anymore cuz I've become lazzy :p
I have a photographic memory with an IQ of roughly 3 trillion.
Ok, im really dumb, and have a normal memory :(
I have alright short term memory ie reading a page before an essay and being able to produce it in the actual test without any papers, pretty good long term memory aswell I can remember a lot of things when I was around the ages of 5 or 6 so if that
I actually have a half decent memory for a stoner! im quite good with detail and i can remember past memorys very well
My memory is scary. I remember everything to the tinyest detail, the problem is I forget things all the time and then when I remember them again I have perfect recall.
My short term memory can be seriously shit but I think that's more due to lazyness and constant procrastination than anything else.
I have almost no trouble recollecting my dreams, it generally confuses me when I don't remember them but it's not uncommon.
I have total recall memory, sounds, sights, tastes, smells, everything I experience get's stored and you know what's really fucked up.
IT NEVER STOPS!!!!!
Can you imagine though walking past someone in the street and say if he/she commits a crime the police ask you to give a description, imagine how hard that would be, unless a really hot chick was the murderer :tongue:
There was this program i saw about a woman who simply couldn't remember peoples faces, she had to remember things about the person, obviously unusual things, like moles, crooked teeth, the shape of their nose etc etc. There was this man interviewing her and all, and at the end of the day she was at a skate park, so was he, and she saw him several times, including upclose, finally he fell down intentionally next to her, and it was only then when he caught her attention that she saw it was him.Quote:
Originally Posted by Robert
In that same program there was a unbeatable chess player, she knew every possible play that a person could make, and didn't even have to think about her actions and a man who could do any possibly calculation, including asking him which day it would be on the 27th of march in 8083.
Anyway they were trying to find out the reason for those things, and they found out that they use different parts of the brain for those things, weird thing is that it's not just that they use different parts for those things, but for all things, everything was just different.
You see this with some of the mentally challenged aswell, most actions are really hard for them, while they can be exceptional at 1 thing, far above what the average people can.
Faces are stored in a special section in the brain.Quote:
Originally Posted by Robert
Anyway, I have an awesome memory, I can remember things in the tiniest detail, for very long periods of time. Also, I seem to remember things better when I have something like a visual representation of something.
I don't know if I have a photographic memory, but I always link abstract things like feelings to colours and patterns.
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Originally Posted by Diseased
Err. I will set something down, and completely forget where i put it LOL
i think i saw something similar. there was also a person who remembered things as pictures in his mind. they taught him basic icelandic language in 3 days and he remembered all he was told. afterwards he said he saw the language as a mountain range and if he got a word wrong he would see something thats not suppost to be there like a car or something.Quote:
Originally Posted by GohanSSJ
Oh... Then I think I sorta have all of those :P. Except that the textual memory isn't that strong, but I'm sometimes able to remember parts of text and specific words..Quote:
Originally Posted by Laz-low
I have very crap memory. Someone rings and tells me to tell the person that they were ment to talk to to ring them back. 5 minutes later they come back home and I forget all about it o.o